Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-30

FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexa. GAzErrEJ
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 80, 1887.

FROM WASHINGTON.
Tspeaial Correspondence OF the Alexa. GAzETrEl
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 80, 1887.
The bidders for constructing the new |
timber dry docks authorized by the last
Congress, are Cohy and O'Conneli, OF Brook
lyn, for the dry dock at the Brooklyn navy
ward at 1928 900, and I. e. Simpson and Co.,
for two docks at New York and Norfolk at
81 O61 900. Plans and specifications were
submitted with each bid and are now in the
hands of board for examination. The
board consists of Civil Engineer Menocal,
Civil Engineer Prindle and Naval Construc'
tor Hichborn. A very careful examination
of these plaus will De made ard on the re-
mort of the board, Commodore Harmony,
Chief of the Bureau OF Yards and Docks,
will award the contracts. Two years will
be about the time required to build the
docks. and work will commence within
forty DAYS from the date of the awards. In
case the plans submitted are not satisfac'
tory the bureau will call for bids on its own
plans, which have. been prepared and are
now ready.
Chief engineer Henry Lee Snyder, OF the
Navy. superintendent of the State, War and
NAVY Department building, died suddenly
this morning, at his rooms in this city, OF
hemorrhage at the lungs He was about 5O
wears of age and leaves wife and several
children. Mr. Snyder entered the naval
service in 1858 and was native of New
Jersey. Passed assistant engineer John A.
Tobin will temporarily discharge the duties
of superintendent of the Department build
ines.
The Secretary of War has appointed James
Madison Barrett clerk to Gen. Sherman I'M
der the authority conferred by the last Con-
gress. Mr.. Barrett has been employed by
Gen. Sherman at his own expense as private
secretary for some time past.
Mrs. Warrick, of Virginia, who was re.
Gently removed from her clerkship in the
Interior Department, has been reinstated.
A prominent man of affairs from the
South, of democratic proclivities, here to.
day, in talking about the condition of Vir-
giDia, said proposition was formulated
last winter by certain leading democrats OF
that State and others, by which Congress
would appropriate to Virginia, out of the
public lands, enough territory to equal the
slice taken from that State to form the
State of West Virginia. That proposition,
he said, not only had the approval Of many
democratic, but of several influential re.
publican Senators, and ne thought could
have been pushed through the Senate if
General Malone had used his inhu-
ence to that effect. He said the
republicans had no especial and par
ticular luminosity toward Virginia; in
deed that they liked her better than some
of the other Southern States on account OF
her opposition to the war and because of
her patriotic course since, and that there
fore they did not want to make her suffer
more than any Of her sister Southern States,
| which she has done, as she is the only one
of those States which had been deprived
of any territory. The amount of public
land to be given her, provided by the prop
ositon referred to, would, if sold be sufli-
cient to relieve her of all her present de.
plorabe financial troubles.
An Ohio democratic Congressman here
to-day says the intention OF the democrats
of his State is to nominate ex Senator Allen
&. Thurman for Governor, whether no will
have it so or not He says Mr. Thurman is
the only democrat who can carry the State,
but that he certainly can, and that if he be
elected the national democratic convention
will be compelled to nominate him next
| year.
Mr.. Barbour says that from the letters he
receives from different parts of Virginia, he
Roanoke as the place for the State demo-
cratic convention is not only generally ac-
Quiesced in, but is generally approved.
! Ex-Assislant Postmaster General HattoD,
the man who transferred the control Of the
whole postal service in Virginia TO Gen.
Malone. is still here, talking for Mr.. Sher-
man. lie says that before Garfield was
| dead Blaine wanted Arthur 10 take charge
OF the government.
The report that conference of democrat
| ic Congressman is to he held here soon fer
the purpose of determining upon the course
| they will pursue next session, and in refer
ence to the organization of the House and
| the appointment Of some Of the committee
chair is denied b. some Southern DEM
ocratic members OF the House now here.
The President made tho following APP
pointments to-day; VIM. Porter, of Des
Moines, Iowa, to be Register of the Land
Office at DssNIones, Iowa. Joseph w.
Preston of Monticello Georgia, to be agent
for the Indians of the Mission Agency in
California. To be visitors to the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane: DIR. James
G. yelling and DR.. Joseph NJ. Toner, OF the
District of Columbia DR.. John &. Hamilton,
Surgeon General of tho Marine Hospital
Service. Secretary Fairchild to-day ap-
pointed Edgar Richards, OF New ork, TO be
microscopic in the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau under the provisions of the oleomarga-
rine law. vice Mr. Walters resigned. MIR.
Richards has been employed in tie Depart.
ment of Agriculture for about five years.
The latest official scandal here is that in
the pension office. A young lady who had
passed satisfactory examination for
clerkship in that office but had not received
an appointment. was grossly nsulted by an
official in that office while promising
her that there should be no more delay.
Her friends reported her case to the head of
the Department, and that being Intellectual,
to the President, by whose order Sue was
appointed but the man who insulted her
still holds his Office, or rather did so up to
noon to day.
John Harrison, son of the late G. W.
Harrison, of Alexandria, for long time
resident in this city, has moved to Texas.
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